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I have her mannerisms! ("The older you get, the more you look like your mother!")

It's July 28, 2008.
On July 28, 1917, in Gouda, The Netherlands, Jacoba Postma, my mother, was born. The fourth of nine children, to the bridge- (and lock-) -keeper, Jan Postma and Betty Schoonens.
After a long period of slowly drifting further and further into Alzheimers, she passed away 4 May, 2004.
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When they were young teenagers, she'd been sent out to meet my father, (_born 14 July, 1917, in Gouda,_) by her younger sister, when he came to call, in the 1930s and stayed together the rest of her life.

As I got out of my car, when taking a friend of my mother's to visit my father, in the retirement village, last week, the friend told me, across the roof of the car:
_You look *so much* like your mother. Even your mannerisms!_
A few months ago, the neighbour who lives opposite and whose wife can observe me from their kitchen window, told me that she had said:
_(As he get older) he looks more and more like his mother, every day!_